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Peter Watkins: Films, 1964-99

14 September – 14 October 2012
Peter Watkins Edvard Munch 1973

Peter Watkins Edvard Munch 1973

© Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins (born 1935) is an award-winning pioneer of the docudrama, typified by his combined use of fictional and documentary elements to dissect historical events

His work has been crucial to a critical understanding of mass media. Edvard Munch (1974), a highly regarded biopic considered by Watkins the most personal film he has ever made, dramatises three decades of the life of Munch and provides a raw and haunting portrait of the creative process as embedded within the spirit and the social relations of the time. In honour of this landmark film, Tate Modern presents a survey of Watkins's acclaimed work on the occasion of the exhibition, Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye.

The Media Crisis: A Perspective by Peter Watkins

A new article about Peter Watkins by Jonty Claypole, Head of Arts Television Production at the BBC, is available in the September 2012 issue of Frieze magazine.

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